Novelist Walter Wangerin Jr.

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Walter Wangerin Jr.

Living place: Portland

Birthday: 13-2-1944 (80 years old)

Population of US 1944: 138,397,345

Global rank: #69143

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Who is Novelist Walter Wangerin Jr.?
An American author of religious fiction and children's books, he is known for The Book of Cow Dun, and for its sequel, The Book of Sorrows. His other works include Mary's First Christmas and The Empty Manger.
His novel, The Book of Cow Dun, won a US National Book Award.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He studied literature at the University of Miami in Ohio and later attended Concordia Seminary in St Louis, Missouri.

Family life info

He was born in Portland, Oregon to a Lutheran minister father. He and his six younger siblings moved frequently throughout their childhood.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Novelist Walter Wangerin Jr.?
He and Maxine Hong Kingston both won National Book Awards.

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When was Novelist Walter Wangerin Jr. born?
Walter Wangerin Jr. birthday 13-2-1944 (at the age of 80).
Where is Novelist Walter Wangerin Jr.'s birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Walter Wangerin Jr. was born in Portland, Oregon- United States. is a Novelist, whose Zodiac is Aquarius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Monkey. Walter Wangerin Jr.'s global rank is 69143 and whose rank is 699 in list of famous Novelist. Population of US in 1944 is about 138,397,345 persons.
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Events in 1944 and 13-2

Events in US in the birth year of Walter Wangerin Jr.

  • FDR is reelected, beating Republican challenger Thomas Dewey. Background: Presidential Elections, 1789–present
  • GI Bill of Rights is passed, providing benefits for armed-service veterans.

Birthday Walter Wangerin Jr. (13-2) in history

  • Day 13-2 year 1866: The gang that included Jesse James and Cole Younger committed their first bank robbery in Liberty, Mo.
  • Day 13-2 year 1867: Johann Strauss's Blue Danube waltz premiered in Vienna.
  • Day 13-2 year 1935: Bruno Hauptmann was found guilty of murder in the Lindbergh kidnapping case.
  • Day 13-2 year 1960: France exploded its first atomic bomb.
  • Day 13-2 year 1974: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who won the 1970 Nobel Prize for literature, was deported from the Soviet Union.
  • Day 13-2 year 2002: The French judge was accused of throwing the pairs skating decision to the Russians at the Olympics.
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